It could have been is a video essay combining personal notes and collected ideas about the current state of the world. Rats wander around artists’ studio and over pages of books. In the center is a thought that when humans disappear from the Earth, rats might take our place as the ruling species.

Harri works in the Estonian army. Divorced, he only sees his 10-year old son during holidays. Harri decides to make up for lost time by going on an adventurous father-son winter trip to an island. Missing the last ferry, Harri decides to take a local ice road over the frozen sea.